John E. Walker Quotes
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.
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I don't have a problem with anybody in Toronto.
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As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.
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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
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In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
